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The lineup of presenters at the ESPYS ranges from LeBron James and Danica Patrick to Britney Spears and Vince Vaughn. Joel McHale hosts the awards show at 8 p.m. Wednesday on ABC. Other presenters will include Mike Epps of "Survivor's Remorse," former soccer player Julie Foudy, Ed Helms of "Vacation," Andre Iguodala of the Golden State Warriors, Chris Long of the St. Louis Rams, Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks, Kiefer Sutherland of "24" and JJ Watt of the Houston Texans. The attendees will include U.S. team members who won the Women’s World Cup on Sunday. ABC listed Sydney Leroux, Alex Morgan and Abby Wambach, but added that other team...

It's almost football season again.
The Washington Redskins bring their training camp to Richmond for the third straight year, beginning Thursday and holding 13 practices before camp breaks Aug. 17
It's the third year the Redskins will be training at the...

In Ray Savage’s first season at the University of Virginia, his team won three games. By the time he graduated, the Cavaliers were co-champions of the ACC.
Being part of a football resurrection isn’t foreign to him. And as head coach at Menchville, he'll...

Here's a list of how players with Virginia connections fared in the playoffs' second week:Listed by jersey number (if still applicable), name, connections and statistics. Does not include players who previously were listed on injured reserve and remain...

Yet again, the San Diego Chargers are winning key games late in the regular season. This time, they can credit a lot of guys who are familiar with Virginia.
The Chargers looked all but finished Saturday night against the 49ers, trailing by 21 points in a...

The previous Williamsburg-area team to make a football state championship game had its star enter with a cast on his right hand because of a torn thumb ligament. That star, Bruton's Lorenzo Taliaferro, had seven carries last weekend in the Baltimore...

WILLIAMSBURG — Is this year’s football team the greatest in Lafayette High school history? The answer should be easy, considering the Rams are 14-0, have outscored the opposition by an average of 45-7 and have not won a game by fewer than 19 points as...

In a relatively quiet week for Virginians in the NFL, Arthur Moats of Portsmouth came up big on defense for the Steelers, Lorenzo Taliaferro from Bruton High made key contributions on the Ravens' offense, and the Chargers' Nick Novak temporarily added...

A decade after he caught a touchdown pass from Bryan Randall that gave Virginia Tech the ACC championship in its first year in the conference, veteran receiver Eddie Royal is back in business with the San Diego Chargers.The last of his nine catches for 81...

Lafayette High has one of the Peninsula area's greatest football traditions, going back to a AAA state championship game appearance in 1973 in the first months of the school's existence. A reminder of that tradition, NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence...

While Michael Vick and the Jets fell flat against the Bills in a game that was relocated from the Buffalo area to Detroit because of heavy snow in western New York, the week was otherwise mostly quiet for Virginia-area players.The Giants' Rashad...

On a reasonably quiet weekend for Virginia-based NFL players, former William and Mary star Jonathan Grimes became a workhorse for Houston, averaging more than 4 yards per rush on his 13 carries as the Texans won in Cleveland.
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A look at Virginia-based players in NFL Week 10: Ahmad Brooks' overtime sack of Drew Brees ensured that the 49ers will stay relevant in postseason discussions; Branden Albert was lost for the season; Michael Vick returned to glory for a day; Russell...

FOOTBALL:
ODU-Wake: Old Dominion agreed to a two-year home-and-home agreement with Wake Forest.
ODU will host Wake Forest in Norfolk on Sept. 19, 2020, and play the Demon Deacons in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Sept. 11, 2021. “This is another...

My takeaways from NFL Week 8 among the Virginia contingent: Rookie Lorenzo Taliaferro scored two touchdowns that might be forgotten because the Ravens blew a lead in Cincinnati; Percy Harvin is getting plenty of touches with the Jets, but Michael Vick and...

It was a mixed weekend for some of the Fuller brothers, who are quite familiar to Virginia Tech fans. Two of the Hokies' football program's most prolific family are now in the NFL.
Corey Fuller grabbed the winning touchdown pass to give Detroit a...

NFL experts say the Patriots will struggle more with Jerod Mayo out of the lineup. Unfortunately, they'll have to find out, since Mayo was carted off the field at Buffalo on Sunday after hurting his knee while making his fifth tackle of the day.
Mayo,...